Theology is one of the oldest traditional schools of the European University system. You might find it interesting to review the history of higher education.
This is a very eloquent but deranged rant. It's little more - it's actually the minority of police and other government officials who are bad eggs. It's important to weed them out, but to call them all corrupt is clearly nutso, at least to anyone who has worked with police on anything other than the receiving end of their role. Given good laws, the police are, by and large, important for the well-being of society. In areas where the laws are badly flawed, this is less true, but at the very least we need them to a certain extent - to go without would expose us to great danger. Some people have a problem with the very idea of authority (parental issues?), and others have legitimately had issues with some police, but to consider them as an institution to be flawed, harmful, or unnecessary is not a perspective that should be considered mature or productive. Those who would do so would be better off finding means to improve the system than advocating its destruction.
I would suggest you take an academic programming job -- it'll probably be more intellectual and better paced for your interests. Academia tends to be better for people who have broad job interests/skills than the private sector, and the retirement benefits will be better as well.
The world also does not run on being the biggest dick around. I am very happy that they're swirling the drain, and wish it had happened earlier. If you want to defend people being dicks, feel free, but it reflects badly on you. What the directory name is called is completely irrelevant to what the program is called. Simply, their product was called "pegasus mail", and mine "pmail". It might internally use a number of different strings and representations, but they were being jerks to try to pretend thatwas a product name. I regret not following the advice of lawyers in my family to fight it. At the very least, it would've been a good irritant for the jerks who run things over there (the general consensus was that I had a very good case anyhow because of the way trademark law works).
To answer the "original question", I had the original name first, and they simply never had it. They did not do anything that amounted to a trademark on it. I was, alas, young and busy and let myself be bullied. It's something I regret.
Some time ago, I wrote a Perl-based mail program called PMail. The Pegasus folks decided that, despite their product never having been called that, they "owned" the name and threatened me with a lawsuit to make me change its name. I'm glad to see them finally swirl the drain.
She's also harmful to Second Life's culture. At one time, I "rented" land in a nice little forest with a bunch of other folk. She eventually came in, bought up most of the land, established some wild west thing, and made it very unpleasant to be there. At the same time, she did her best to get the rest of us to leave. I think the community would be better off without her. She ruins everything she touches.
You know, in discussions you might.. you know.. respond to some of the points that people make by disputing them or making other points, rather than have flashy responses that don't actually say anything...
"Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law."
-- Linus Torvalds
It is hard to focus on the quality of articles we have when people write about crap. Judgement is subjective, sure, but that's no excuse not to exercise good judgement. Good judgement is the core of doing what needs doing in almost any endeavor -- if people ran away shrieking "oh, that's subjective!" every time, nothing worthwhile would get done.
Just as libraries do not (and should not) roll dice when they're picking what books to order to fill their shelves, encyclopedias should not have articles about any old thing. "What will still be interesting in 50 years? What has greater impact to society and civilisation?" These are the kinds of questions that can lead to a good encyclopedia. With fewer articles, each would get more love, and we'd have a healthier project - everything else could go to wikia, where we don't need to worry about the reputation they get.
While legally he should not've been detained for this, the guy was still being a dick by wearing this to the airport while expecting to fly somewhere. The fact that it's government sector merely means that the government should serve him anyway, not that he's any less a schmuck for doing it.
It would certainly horrible to imagine that any of the anti-slavery politicians in American history were suggesting anything like breaking the law. Depriving slaveowners of their property would be theft.
It was an effective way at spotting the leaks, which were pretty uncool, but the means were also uncool. In a more ideal world, neither the leaks nor such measures to catch them would be necessary..
Some of us believe the soul-sucking business world can be toppled or at least loosened up in the years to come. A more decentralised, less corporate future awaits us. Let's make that happen.
There's a slight difference between saying "I don't want to be involved with gambling" and enumerating all companies that are involved in it in some fashion. Advisors serve a role of simplifying investment, and this isn't necessarily a binary process (either you know enough to be an advisor or you know practically nothing). I think the person you're responding to is rather sensible in deciding that they only want to be involved to the point where it's ethical, or that they want to exclude just a few companies that are known to be unethical, without doing *everything* themselves.
The origin of that 'may' depends on how much scotch he is on at the moment. Plenty of scotch = absolutely possible. Sober (rare) = not possible. Usually it's in-between:)
It's important to note though that much of the breakdown of the image data happens in the brain regions after the V1 visual area -- V1 is not much different than a simple bitmapped display. Given that the optic nerve is what connects V1 to the brain hardware, and that V1 is the gateway to the multiple visual data paths in the brain, the basic post seems valid (and is interesting)
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Theology is one of the oldest traditional schools of the European University system. You might find it interesting to review the history of higher education.
This is a very eloquent but deranged rant. It's little more - it's actually the minority of police and other government officials who are bad eggs. It's important to weed them out, but to call them all corrupt is clearly nutso, at least to anyone who has worked with police on anything other than the receiving end of their role. Given good laws, the police are, by and large, important for the well-being of society. In areas where the laws are badly flawed, this is less true, but at the very least we need them to a certain extent - to go without would expose us to great danger. Some people have a problem with the very idea of authority (parental issues?), and others have legitimately had issues with some police, but to consider them as an institution to be flawed, harmful, or unnecessary is not a perspective that should be considered mature or productive. Those who would do so would be better off finding means to improve the system than advocating its destruction.
I would suggest you take an academic programming job -- it'll probably be more intellectual and better paced for your interests. Academia tends to be better for people who have broad job interests/skills than the private sector, and the retirement benefits will be better as well.
That certainly would purify things :O
Ideally they prefer broad coverage of potential issues rather than coverage of only issues that you, personally, need.
The world also does not run on being the biggest dick around. I am very happy that they're swirling the drain, and wish it had happened earlier. If you want to defend people being dicks, feel free, but it reflects badly on you. What the directory name is called is completely irrelevant to what the program is called. Simply, their product was called "pegasus mail", and mine "pmail". It might internally use a number of different strings and representations, but they were being jerks to try to pretend thatwas a product name. I regret not following the advice of lawyers in my family to fight it. At the very least, it would've been a good irritant for the jerks who run things over there (the general consensus was that I had a very good case anyhow because of the way trademark law works).
To answer the "original question", I had the original name first, and they simply never had it. They did not do anything that amounted to a trademark on it. I was, alas, young and busy and let myself be bullied. It's something I regret.
Being greedy with the "product name" namespace is rather uncool. It's a weak argument to base it off of a directory name.
PMail != Pegasus Mail. It's one thing to claim one name, it's another to claim anything that might be even sort-of close.
Some time ago, I wrote a Perl-based mail program called PMail. The Pegasus folks decided that, despite their product never having been called that, they "owned" the name and threatened me with a lawsuit to make me change its name. I'm glad to see them finally swirl the drain.
She's also harmful to Second Life's culture. At one time, I "rented" land in a nice little forest with a bunch of other folk. She eventually came in, bought up most of the land, established some wild west thing, and made it very unpleasant to be there. At the same time, she did her best to get the rest of us to leave. I think the community would be better off without her. She ruins everything she touches.
You know, in discussions you might .. you know.. respond to some of the points that people make by disputing them or making other points, rather than have flashy responses that don't actually say anything...
"Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether
what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt.
Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law."
-- Linus Torvalds
Apparently our morality is simple pragmatism?
It is hard to focus on the quality of articles we have when people write about crap. Judgement is subjective, sure, but that's no excuse not to exercise good judgement. Good judgement is the core of doing what needs doing in almost any endeavor -- if people ran away shrieking "oh, that's subjective!" every time, nothing worthwhile would get done.
Just as libraries do not (and should not) roll dice when they're picking what books to order to fill their shelves, encyclopedias should not have articles about any old thing. "What will still be interesting in 50 years? What has greater impact to society and civilisation?" These are the kinds of questions that can lead to a good encyclopedia. With fewer articles, each would get more love, and we'd have a healthier project - everything else could go to wikia, where we don't need to worry about the reputation they get.
Civ3, Angband (some variant, anyhow), Tetrinet, Chrono Trigger (yay emulators), Puzzle Bobble (or some clone like frozen bubble)
While legally he should not've been detained for this, the guy was still being a dick by wearing this to the airport while expecting to fly somewhere. The fact that it's government sector merely means that the government should serve him anyway, not that he's any less a schmuck for doing it.
And the shape, thanks to too much fast food and not enough exercise :)
It would likewise BE horrible for me to use the preview button so I could spot an obvious left-out word. :)
It would certainly horrible to imagine that any of the anti-slavery politicians in American history were suggesting anything like breaking the law. Depriving slaveowners of their property would be theft.
There is no cabal...
It was an effective way at spotting the leaks, which were pretty uncool, but the means were also uncool. In a more ideal world, neither the leaks nor such measures to catch them would be necessary..
What past actions are you talking about?
Some of us believe the soul-sucking business world can be toppled or at least loosened up in the years to come. A more decentralised, less corporate future awaits us. Let's make that happen.
There's a slight difference between saying "I don't want to be involved with gambling" and enumerating all companies that are involved in it in some fashion. Advisors serve a role of simplifying investment, and this isn't necessarily a binary process (either you know enough to be an advisor or you know practically nothing). I think the person you're responding to is rather sensible in deciding that they only want to be involved to the point where it's ethical, or that they want to exclude just a few companies that are known to be unethical, without doing *everything* themselves.
The origin of that 'may' depends on how much scotch he is on at the moment. Plenty of scotch = absolutely possible. Sober (rare) = not possible. Usually it's in-between :)
It's important to note though that much of the breakdown of the image data happens in the brain regions after the V1 visual area -- V1 is not much different than a simple bitmapped display. Given that the optic nerve is what connects V1 to the brain hardware, and that V1 is the gateway to the multiple visual data paths in the brain, the basic post seems valid (and is interesting)